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Don't Think to Hard and You Might Enjoy 'Starsky and Hutch'
'Starsky and Hutch', the new film by Todd Phillips, is strangely complex. But in a good way. The dialogue, though witty and fun to listen to, takes on a serious tone at times. The movie is fun and campy and is sort of like a tamer version of 'Kill Bill', in that it takes many elements from old movies and television shows. Vince Vaughn is wonderfully slimy as Reese Feldman, a drug dealer\murderer\father. Ben Stiller is in top form as Starsky and Owen Wilson is hilarious as mildly corrupt Hutch (Dialogue Sample Between Starsky and Hutch: Hutch: Let's push this body and hope it floats over to the next precinct. Starsky: Hutch! No! (then to body) Looks like you punched your last ticket, amigo.) Snoop Dog is spectacular as Huggy Bear, the "Urban Informer". Some of the movie is odd, such as the abrupt ending (Phillips' trademark?) and the quick action sequences.
The plot begins when Vaughn's Feldman kills one of his associates on his yacht, then dumps the body in the ocean. Starsky and Hutch find the body washed up on shore a few days later. The two discover a wallet and the credit cards lead them to Reese's house. Feldman and his business partner cover up their involvement with the death, saying the dead man was a convict. Of course Starsky and Hutch are led to the Bay City Cheerleading Squad, where the body's ex - girlfriend works. They ask her, like, I dunno, one question that suprisingly gets them somewhere. One parody of "Easy Rider" and a bar brawl later, the duo is led to a slimy drug trafficker (Will Ferrell) who has some truly nasty fantasies. After that scene is when the climax starts to unfold, slowly but surely. I won't spoil the end, but it is what Saturday matinee's are all about (car chases, gun battles, campy humor, et al).
So, in conclusion, "Starsky and Hutch" isn't bad at all. It has only two or three boring aspects about it,but those are usually gone from the rest of the movie pretty quickly, like the writers knew that it was a bad idea and forgot to delete it from the script. Some of the extras from "old School" are extras in this movie. For example: the guy who sang at Will Ferrell's wedding in "Old School" sings at the bar mitz va here and the MC of the disco club is a co-star on the show "King of Queens" which also stars Leah Remini, who played in "Old School", anyway, back to the point, the guy who played the MC was a waiter at the birthday party in "School". I know that it is all very complex, but I thought it was ironic and quite interesting.
Carmen Electra and Amy Smart are the leading ladies and I was suprised not to see Ernie Hudson playing Sergeant Doby. Watch for a hilarious scene in the middle with an Asian child and his father. It is one of the funniest things ever without being racist.

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Stiller & Wilson - not as Funny as they look.
The funniest part of the movie was the wardrobe.
The coolest star was the red & white Grand Torino.
It really wasn't all that funny, and it contained some near-nude scenes and a monague-de-twa as well.
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson team up once again for a droll time on the big screen.
The whole cocaine crime deal was so sophmoric and not believable...Snoop Dog as Huggy Bear wuz lame as well.
But those threads he wore were a hoot!
Makes you marvel at Ms. Electra...all she does for her fame and fortune is get naked or get sexual. Has she any intelligence at all? She set womanhood behind 4 decades in her scenes.
Somebody should tell her that women are capable of much much more. Not that she would listen.
The ending when S and H try to crash land the Torino onto the deck of the bad guyes yaght is really dumb.
They sink the Torino like it was nuthin.
Then in the end, the original Starsky and Hutch appear as used car salesmen selling....you guessed it...another identical red and white Grand Torino.
Gosh, I love that car!
At the end as the credits roll, they show outtakes of the film
which is the most entertainment you will ever get to see in the film. They show stunt drivers launching various Grand Torinos up in the air, ala Dukes of Hazard and that '69 Dodge Charger, called the General Lee.
Watch closely...you will see actual front end damage and undercarriage damage done to the restored Grand Torinos they bought for the film.
Must have some real good body work dudes working on the lot that day...they destroyed almost half a dozen of them red & white Grand Torinos for this film.
Which is a crying shame, man.
After all, they don't build any more Grand Torinos like the Starsky car.
They are an extinct breed of muscle car that were once driven down the road in America in the 70's.
WHICH car was most famous in that era?
The Starsky red & white Grand Torino or....
The Dukes of Hazard Dodge Charger painted pumpkin orange with a rebel flag painted on the roof?
Cool car is all I can say....
the coolest part of the movie was da car, man!

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Yup, just not that funny.
Worth a chuckle if on TV late at night, but that's about it. Not a huge let down, but you expect more. Just not "zany" as it wants to be. The DVD extras are fairly lame as well, as most DVD supplements are becoming. If you really want it... buy it used from some rental outlet.